One organ and tissue donor can save up to seven lives and enhance the lives of up to 75 others.

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be an organ donor, because you don't need your organs after you die.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

We already have stringent regulations in place for tissue donor screening and for handling and processing tissue. These regulations are designed to protect both the tissue donor and recipient, and we expect people to follow these rules.